Monday, July 13th 2009
Windows 7 to be Available to Businesses Early
At the ongoing Worldwide Partner Conference held in New Orleans, USA by Microsoft, the company announced that its upcoming client operating system, Windows 7 will be made available to its business customers through volume licensing starting September 1, over a month ahead of its worldwide commercial launch on October 22. Starting September 1, business customers will be able to order the Windows 7 Enterprise variant through Microsoft Software Assurance licensing. The key features of Windows 7 Enterprise as listed by Microsoft are as follows:
Source:
Hexus.net
- DirectAccess: Give mobile users seamless access to corporate networks without a need to VPN
- BranchCache: Decrease time branch office users spend waiting to download files across the network
- Enterprise Search Scopes: Find information on network locations including SharePoint sites with a simple user interface
- BitLocker & BitLocker To Go: Help protect data on PCs and removable drives, with manageability to enforce encryption and backup of recovery keys
- AppLocker: Specify what software is allowed to run on user's PCs through centrally managed, but flexible, Group Policies
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Optimisations: Improved user experience for VDI with multimon and microphone support. Plus the ability to reuse virtual machine (VHD) images to boot a physical PC
- Multi Lingual User Interface: Create a single operating system (OS) image for deployment to users worldwide
15 Comments on Windows 7 to be Available to Businesses Early
The general people should get the new OS first
TO MS:Better start giving better discounts to consumers to keep your consumer base large, 'cause it ain't looking good on the business side.:ohwell:
The only use this is for a business is that those already in talks of upgrading their systems can begin testing and troubleshooting a PC on their network using a full on RTM version of the OS.
I doubt any legitimately large business will be running Windows 7 production until atleast service pack 1.
Those laptops will be reimaged to Windows 7 RTM once it's been released and a SOE has been created using the RTM version...
They are also legitimately large too - we're talking 6 digit numbers (actual numbers, not $ value) of laptops.
That only makes sense to *roll out* with windows 7.
I was talking about businesses already having some 400+ computers in place, servers, production lines, and large amounts of applications/users actively actually using their product, not being handed brand new ones.